Hervagium, Basileae, 1541. (XIV)leaves+685 Pages pp. Bound in a contemporary full blindtooled pigskin in wooden boards. With heavy wear, but tight binding and only small loss of pigskin. Endpapers with heavy loss and worming. Some other pages with smaller loss on margains and with stains.. 15062404

An early printing of the Great Charter and other ancient statutes, the second of two Berthelet printings, the first to include a second part of additional ancient statutes (to be emulated in later printings of the Charter), here in both parts. Early calf, rebacked, upper blank margin of title repaired, discreetly ex-library, else a very good copy with occasional notations sometimes extensive. Impressus . . . in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti [etc.], London, 1541.

Greece: Vienne, Daupniné Gaspar Trechsel, 1541. Black and white woodcut map of Crete by Laurent Fries from "Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo ... Prostant Lugduni apud Hugonem a Porta. M. D. XLI." Latin text to verso. The map is from the second edition edited by Michael Villanovanus known as Servetus, the woodblock is the same as that used for the editions of 1522 & 1535. the difference from the previous editions can be seen in the plain letterpress title. Dark impression; dampstain to upper margin; some soiling and spotting ; hole [10mm] at lower centre fold just entering image due to stitching with others in lower blank margin [10mm & 2mm]. Laurent Fries was a French physician and mathematician born around 1485 in Mulhouse. He settled finally in Strassburg where he meat Peter Apian and the publisher Johannes Grüninger which made him interested in the Ptolemy Atlas of 1513 and 1520. Fries made new woodcut maps in reduced size. His Ptolemy Atlas was published first in 1522, reissued in 1525, 1535 and 1541. He died in 1532. Second edition of Michael Servetus' Ptolemy edition, published by G. Trechsel 1541 in Vienne, Dauphine. The text is the new Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer which first appeared in the 1525 edition, which has been edited by Michael Servetus, for the first time for 1535 edition and the second time for this 1541 edition. The maps of all four issues were printed from the same wooden blocks which were made for the first edition by Laurent Fries in 1522. in most cases he simply producied a reduct
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Greece: Vienne, Daupniné Gaspar Trechsel, 1541. Black and white woodcut map o fGreece by Laurent Fries from "Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo ... Prostant Lugduni apud Hugonem a Porta. M. D. XLI." Latin text to verso. The map is from the second edition edited by Michael Villanovanus known as Servetus, the woodblock is the same as that used for the editions of 1522 & 1535. Dark impression; dampstain to upper margin; light toning;some soiling and spotting ;wormtrack to lower centrefold in blank margin [30mm] and short split to upper centrefold [7mm]. Laurent Fries was a French physician and mathematician born around 1485 in Mulhouse. He settled finally in Strassburg where he meat Peter Apian and the publisher Johannes Grüninger which made him interested in the Ptolemy Atlas of 1513 and 1520. Fries made new woodcut maps in reduced size. His Ptolemy Atlas was published first in 1522, reissued in 1525, 1535 and 1541. He died in 1532. Second edition of Michael Servetus' Ptolemy edition, published by G. Trechsel 1541 in Vienne, Dauphine. The text is the new Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer which first appeared in the 1525 edition, which has been edited by Michael Servetus, for the first time for 1535 edition and the second time for this 1541 edition. The maps of all four issues were printed from the same wooden blocks which were made for the first edition by Laurent Fries in 1522. in most cases he simply producied a reduction of the equivalent map from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographie Opus Novissima,
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Greece: Vienne, Daupniné Gaspar Trechsel, 1541. Black and white woodcut map o fGreece by Laurent Fries from "Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo ... Prostant Lugduni apud Hugonem a Porta. M. D. XLI." Blank verso. The map is from the second edition edited by Michael Villanovanus known as Servetus, the woodblock is the same as that used for the editions of 1522 & 1535. Dark impression; dampstain to upper margin; light toning; some soiling and spotting, one darker to lower image, and Wax? drop to upper title; split to lower centrefold in blank margin [40mm] just entering image; Holes at centrefold due to stitching[ in lower half near the A of "Grecia" and in the upper half along centrefold near "ZEVIA". Laurent Fries was a French physician and mathematician born around 1485 in Mulhouse. He settled finally in Strassburg where he meat Peter Apian and the publisher Johannes Grüninger which made him interested in the Ptolemy Atlas of 1513 and 1520. Fries made new woodcut maps in reduced size. His Ptolemy Atlas was published first in 1522, reissued in 1525, 1535 and 1541. He died in 1532. Second edition of Michael Servetus' Ptolemy edition, published by G. Trechsel 1541 in Vienne, Dauphine. The text is the new Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer which first appeared in the 1525 edition, which has been edited by Michael Servetus, for the first time for 1535 edition and the second time for this 1541 edition. The maps of all four issues were printed from the same wooden blocks which were made for the first edition by Laurent
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Lugdani [i.e. Lyon]: Apud Sebtastianum Gryphium, 1541. [3], cols. 14-740, [3ff]. Signatures: a-z8, A-H8. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep, with some wear and loss to surfaces. Slight loss and splitting to joints at base of spine. Dampstaining, some soiling and occasional worming to text - mostly marginal, but causing loss to the odd letter. Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney's copy, with his ink inscription 'Adamus Episcopi orchadey' to title page. Later in the library of the Grahams, inscribed as such to title, with the eighteenth-century shelfmark of B.29, and with the nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Robert Graham to FEP. Undoubtedly the copy of Adam, Bishop of Orkney (1529-1583), Reformed clergyman and civil servant who married Mary Queen of Scots to James Hepburn according to the reformed rite on 15th May 1567, and, following the former's abdication, anointed her son James as King of Scotland just two over two months later on 29th July. It bears his distinctive ink inscription to title and is entirely in keeping with the wide ranging judicial portion of his library, this most successful work of Alsatian humanist and jurist Jakob Speigel (1483-1547) is nevertheless not included in the inventory of his books contained within The Warrender Papers (London, 1932. Vol II). Not in Adams.. First Edition. Folio.

Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1541. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full 18th century calf, rubbed, hinges splitting but held by cords, lacking the lettering piece. Title stained, light marginal dampstain at beginning and end, paper edges browned, tiny worm trails in the margins, small tear in the margin of the first page, but clean overall. 314, (xiv) pp including the printer's device at the end. Bitting 11, Vicaire 31, Cagle 32, Simon 123. Collects not only Apicius's Roman cookery, the most important single work for our knowledge of ancient cookery, but also Platina's De honesta voluptate et valetudine (largely a collection of the recipes of the great 15th century chef Maestro Martino da Como), the first printed book of recipes (Rome 1474-5) and the first early modern cookbook , as well as the Byzantine physician Paulus Aegineta's work on health and diet. A fine trio on early food and diet. Size: 8vo (octavo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000064.

Adams P-1541; BMC STC German, p. 704; VD 16, P3485; for the binding: cf. Devauchelle I, p. 60; S. Fogelmark pp. 86, 88, 126, 151, 171, 178, 185, 218, and plates XI, XXXVII R 81 (variant), and XL R 104; Gruel II, 85-87. Fine 16th-century Flemish panel-stamped binding, signed by Anthoine de Gavere. The family De Gavere were bookbinders at Ghent and Bruges between 1450 and 1545. The panel-stamped bindings from Ghent and Bruges are among the most delicately engraved and the most carefully executed of all. According to Weale, Anthoine was active at Ghent from 1459 to 1505, but the archives of Lille contain documents proving that from 1495 to 1505 Anthoine worked at Bruges, not Ghent, and that he was the binder of many of the beautiful manuscripts from the library of Philip I ("the Handsome"), Duke of Burgundy (1478-1506). A binding with similar panels signed by Anthoine de Gavere, and containing another Plinius edition, also dated 1526, is cited by Leon Gruel. Contents: three works by Plinius II, forming the main historical source for Trajan's ill-documented reign: his letters, presenting with considerable charm a richly varied picture of the life of the more cultured Romans under the Empire; his famous rhetorical essay, the Panegyricus to Trajan; and the lives of illustrious men of that period. At the end follow the biographies of literary men by Suetonius, and Julius Obsequens's work on prodigies. With several early inscriptions in the endleaves, including owners' names, and a later inscription dated 1729, early annotations in the margins. In very good condition, with only the
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1541. FIRST EDITION, title in red and black within an ornate woodcut architectural border with woodcut arms within architectural border on verso woodcut historiated and decorated initials, occasional early ink marginalia and finger posts, including an early ink drawing of a ?woodpecker or similar employed as a 'finger post' to b1, small repaired hole to m2, affecting a couple of letters recto and verso, marginal browning mostly to ff., encroaching on text in a few instances (especially sig p. at end), small marginal repairs to a number of ff., including outer edge of title, antique style limp vellum ties, [Palau 263182 & 287547], 4to, [Alcala de Henares], [Juan de Bocar], 1541. A rare copy of the first Spanish work on Rhetoric. Miguel de Salinas believed that there should be greater accessibility to the rhetorical tradition. And so, by writing in the vernacular it opened up the subject to those Spanish speakers without a firm grasp of classical languages, in which many of the other rhetorical texts were written. Provenance: Joseph Campi (early ink inscriptions to foot of n4); Hieronymi ?Sedda (early ink inscription below colophon). [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

Paris, apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1541.ELOQUENTISSIMI DECLAMATIONES DILIGENTER RECOGNITAE. 1541 - 1542. 2 works in 1 volume, each with title page, both published by Simon de Colines, Latin text, 8vo, approximately 240 x 160 mm, 9¼ x 6¼ inches, large pictorial printer's device on title pages, a few decorated initials, leaves: (4), 250; 84, numbers 45, 46, 93 and 94 omitted from the foliation of the first part, text and register are continuous, collated and guaranteed complete, bound in 19th century half leather over marbled sides, gilt rules and lettering to spine. Handsomely rebound in full panel calf, maroon morocco label with gilt lettering and rules between raised bands to spine, Part I: title page dusty and lightly browned, name in top and bottom margins, another below title erased leaving tiny hole, tiny nick to lower edge, in about 50 places there is some highlighting of 2 or 3 lines of text in pale brown pencil or water colour, a couple of small corrections to text, original still legible, a few lines crossed through once but still legible, 6 neat early marginal notes, 1 erased, small ink smudge to 1 page with loss of 2 words, a little light browning to some pages; Part II, 1 small ink stain to text, still legible, 1 underlining, last 4 leaves slightly browned, otherwise clean. Text block tight and firm. A good copy. The first work is an early edition of Quintilian's famous treatise on the art of rhetoric. The second work in the volume was for many years attributed to Quintilian but is now recognised as spurious. Brunet, IV, 1025. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, A
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1541 - Vienne: Gaspar Trechsel, 1541. Coloured. Woodcut, printed area 315 x 395mm. The second printed map to focus on South Africa, reduced from Wäldseemüller's 'modern' map in his edition of Ptolemy, with added vignettes including kings, an elephant and a cockatrice (a reptile with a cockerel's head). Between the mainland and Madagascar is the King of Portugal riding on a sea-serpent, representing his country's dominance in the East. Originally intended not for an edition of Ptolemy but for a new 'Chronica mundi' being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved. The reduced woodcuts were then used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography'. See NORWICH: 150.

Paris: Christianus Wechelus, 1541 Single sheet, matted and framed (11 2/8 x 16 2/8 inches to the neat line; framed size 24 x 28 4/8 inches). Fine woodcut double-cordiform world map, the title within a ribbon banner along the top edge, Wechelis' imprint centre lower edge, showing the world in two hemispheres, the right being mostly "Terra Australis', 'recently discovered, but not yet explored' and South America, the left, Europe and North America, surrounded by an elaborate decorative border. Provenance: The Goodyear Collection, purchased September 1984, their sale Rachel Davis Fine Arts, September 21st, 2013, lot 477. First published the Paris edition of Huttich and Grynaeus' "Novus Orbis Regionum" in 1532, this the fourth impression from the same 1531 woodblock was issued in Pomponius Mela's "De Orbis Situ", Paris, 1541. Oronce Fine's double-cordiform map of the world is remarkable for several reasons. It was the most superior rendering of the world to-date, originally accompanying Johann Huttich's and Simon Grynaeus' collection of accounts of voyages entitled "Novus Orbis Regionum". The book was first published in Basel but reprinted in Paris during 1532 by Christian Wechel with this accompanying map. It is thought that Wechel also sold copies of the map separately, as here. Another world map, "Typus Cosmographicus Universalis," rendered by Sebastian Munster and Hans Holbein in 1532, accompanied the Basel editions. Geographically, Fine's map included the most advanced information available. The North American continent remains an extension of the Asian mainland much al
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Paris: Christianus Wechelus, 1541 Single sheet, matted and framed (11 2/8 x 16 2/8 inches to the neat line; framed size 24 x 28 4/8 inches). Fine woodcut double-cordiform world map, the title within a ribbon banner along the top edge, Wechelis' imprint centre lower edge, showing the world in two hemispheres, the right being mostly "Terra Australis', 'recently discovered, but not yet explored' and South America, the left, Europe and North America, surrounded by an elaborate decorative border. Provenance: The Goodyear Collection, purchased September 1984, their sale Rachel Davis Fine Arts, September 21st, 2013, lot 477. First published the Paris edition of Huttich and Grynaeus' "Novus Orbis Regionum" in 1532, this the fourth impression from the same 1531 woodblock was issued in Pomponius Mela's "De Orbis Situ", Paris, 1541. Oronce Fine's double-cordiform map of the world is remarkable for several reasons. It was the most superior rendering of the world to-date, originally accompanying Johann Huttich's and Simon Grynaeus' collection of accounts of voyages entitled "Novus Orbis Regionum". The book was first published in Basel but reprinted in Paris during 1532 by Christian Wechel with this accompanying map. It is thought that Wechel also sold copies of the map separately, as here. Another world map, "Typus Cosmographicus Universalis," rendered by Sebastian Munster and Hans Holbein in 1532, accompanied the Basel editions. Geographically, Fine's map included the most advanced information available. The North American continent remains an extension of the Asian mainland much al
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Venice: in casa de' figliuoli di Aldo, 1541. Venice: in casa de' figliuoli di Aldo, 1541. First Aldine edition. Boards. Very Good/Informed by Jewish and Platonic currents, the Dialogues on Love managed to leap out of its borders and become a seminal influence on Renaissance philosophies of love. It was first published in Rome six years earlier, but received little attention until this first Aldine edition launched the text's international success as one of the most popular philosophical works of its age. Not only was it considered an emblematic text of its age and among the best examples of the treatises on love that abounded in its wake, but it managed to synthesize Italian, Iberian, Neapolitan, and Jewish currents into a Neoplatonic matrix that resonated into the broader European culture of the sixteenth century.. Octavo (16 cm); [2], 241 (misnumbered 261), [1] leaves. Aldine anchor device on title page and on verso of final leaf. Nineteenth-century 1/4 calf, spine faded. Slight soiling on title-page, with few stains. Cropped marginalia in Italian throughout. Bookseller's ticket of William Salloch. Bookplate of Kenneth Rapoport. Adams A-60; Renouard 123:10; Ahmanson-Murphy #273 (New UCLA 303); Brunet III:984 ("La première edition est moins recherchée que les reimpressions aldines").